We don't know for sure whether Microsoft ever envisioned such a big market about PowerPoint on its first release. But the demand for this application proved huge.

Today this software is impacting profoundly on education and corporation's activities in the way that nobody could ignore. With a wealth of visual and audio effects, the software lets people express their ideas and plans more intuitively with more effective communication outcomes.

PowerPoint is enjoying huge popularity in education. However, with the booming of Internet, traditional education approaches have been eclipsed by various new emerging ways. And in spite of heavy promotion of supposedly new educational approaches in recent years, the real innovation and revolution is taking place somewhere else: on the Web, where I truly believe the advantages of PowerPoint will be fully exerted again.

Another great use of the application, undoubtedly, is for entertainment. With PowerPoint2003 great transition effects and flash movie, narration record functions, people are now in favor of using it to make all kinds of brilliant slideshows as a way to store and highlight their precious memory. For businesspeople, this technology has been an exclusive way to make their conception live for many years.

However like any other software, PowerPoint has its weak points. Presentations created in Power Point will run only on computers where the software is installed., and its bulky size makes it awkward to distribute. In recent years, people have come up with an idea to fix this inconvenience - to convert PowerPoint to smaller, multi-platform supported flash files. Here are the merits of this conversion:

1. Reduced Size and Email Ready feature

If you are using PowerPoint presentation frequently in your work, you must feel hindered by its bulky size every now and then, holding you back from any distribution. Now with PowerPoint to Flash Converter, that kind of problem will be eliminated automatically. The converted flash presentation is definitely a better option for emailing due to its smaller size; it will not clog your partner's inbox.

2. Greater and Easier Accessibility for Viewers

The converted Flash presentations can be easily viewed in any Internet browsers, as most browsers have a Flash Plug-in alredy installed. Therefore, you can email a converted Flash file to your friends directly without worrying whether they have PowerPoint Software installed on their computers or not. You can just post these smaller files on websites or Intranets to share with other people.

3. Keep all original effects in PowerPoint presentation

Converting PowerPoint to Flash will keep all original effects in your PowerPoint presentation without any distortion. With this knowledge in mind, you can just go ahead and enjoy it!

4. Secure

PowerPoint files can be easily edited by anyone who has PowerPoint installed on their machine. Not so for Flash files, which allow you to maintain a higher degree of control over your content if you wish to.

5. Firewall Friendliness

Flash-based content has no problem going through firewalls as it behaves just like standard Web content.